August 08, 2024 – A

Blue Ridge Fall 2004 — Vicinity of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina
Balance and Harmony,
serenity and tranquility,
at peace with ourselves
and our situation in life...

These are the conditions required
to access our intuition
and align ourselves with it.

And they are concurrent with
emptiness, stillness and silence.

The right kind of emptiness
is contingent upon the conditions
required for alignment with our intuition.

It all comes together to lead us along the way
of life everlasting--
which is the experience of life in its fullest,
most vibrant and vital encounter.

When then and there is experienced here and now,
that's it.
There is nothing beyond "to ask,
or seek, or imagine"--
just the continuation of the Eternal Now
of the bliss of being.

Which, of course is gone in a wink,
and we are left with "the memory of its passing
and the dream of its hoped-for return."

But we know it is there for the experiencing
when the conditions are favorable for the rest of life
and perhaps beyond.

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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